Monday, May 04, 2015
9:30 am to 10:15 am
Arrival with coffee and sandwiches
10:15 am to 10:30 am
The Director’s Welcome
Anders Liljas – Lund University
10:30 am to 11:00 am
Session 1, Chair: Dieter Söll
The history of ribosome research
Maria Selmer – Uppsala University
11:00 am to 11:35 pm
Title to be announced
Break
Joachim Frank – University of Columbia
11:45 pm to 12:35 pm
Title to be announced
Lunch
Suparna Sanyal – Uppsala University
1:30 pm to 2:05 pm
Clarifying the role of the so-called ‘catalytic’ Histidine in EFG function
Magnus Johansson – Uppsala University
2:05 pm to 2:40 pm
Session 2, Chair: Johan Åqvist
Studies of protein synthesis in live cells - one molecule at a
time
Coffee
Johan Elf – Uppsala University
3:10 pm to 3:45 pm
Ribosome partitioning and the bacterial cell cycle
Break
Zoya Ignatova – University of Hamburg
4:00 pm to 4:50 pm
Secondary structure across bacterial transcriptome reveals
versatile roles in mRNA regulation and function
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Workshops with Joachim Frank and Zoya Ignatova
7:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday, May 05, 2015
8:00 am to 8:45 am
Breakfast
Thomas Nyström – Gothenburg University
8:45 am to 9:35 am
Session 3, Chair: Zoya Ignatova
Title to be announced
Break
Terry Hwa – UCSD
9:45 am to 10:35 am
Title to be announced
Morning Coffee
11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Social event – Boat sightseeing on lake Mälaren (RIB)
Lunch
1:50 pm to 2:10 pm
Information KAW
Summary and evaluation
Dieter Söll – Yale University
2:10 pm to 3:00 pm
Session 4, Chair: Suparna Sanyal
Still enchanted by the genetic code
Coffee
Diarmaid Hughes – Uppsala University
3:30 pm to 4:05 pm
Intrinsic suppression of a frameshift mutation in an
essential gene
Dan Andersson – Uppsala University
4:05 pm to 4:40 pm
You see what you look for—the importance of selective
pressures
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Workshops with Dieter Söll and Terry Hwa
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Poster session
8:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
8:30 am to 9:30 am
Breakfast
Johan Åqvist – Uppsala University
9:30 am to 10:05 am
Session 5, Chair: Thomas Nyström
Exceptionally Large Entropy Contributions Enable the High
Rates of GTP Hydrolysis on the Ribosome
Martin Ott – Stockholm University
10:05 am to 10:40 am
Organization of Mitochondrial gene expression in two
distinct ribosome containing ensembles
Morning coffee
Gerrit Barndis– Uppsala University
11:10 am to 11:30 am
Session 6, Chair: Anders Liljas
The selective advantage of synonymous codon usage bias
Anneli Borg – Uppsala University
11:30 am to 11:50 am
The mechanism of Ribosome recycling by EF-G and RRF –
Biochemistry meets time resolved Cryo EM
Lunch
Måns Ehrenberg – Uppsala University
13:00 pm to 14:00 pm
Bacterial protein synthesis: clarity and confusion
14:00 pm
Future perspectives and closing remarks
16:00 pm
Departure
Session 7, Chair: Måns Ehrenberg